Catholic Church

the stoning of stephen, the church’s first martyr, reminds us that the cross is not simply the precursor of the resurrection. the cross is, ...

Bishop David McGough

letter to a suffering church by bishop robert barron word on fire catholic ministries, 57pp, 99p/$1.25 (kindle) a priest for 33 years and a ...

Fr Thomas Berg

a history of the bible by john barton, allen lane 640pp, £25/$35 when i was a novice, one of my fellow novices encouraged me to read a book ...

Richard Ounsworth OP

do younger catholics rarely sin? sir – when i was about seven, i learned from my penny catechism that “purgatory is a place where souls suff...

The Catholic Herald

i was once sent on a television coaching course in which a tutor in communications endeavoured to teach a group of us how to get our point a...

Mary Kenny

if catholics were barred from public office, our politics might be greatly improved. such a harsh assessment would be unthinkable if catholi...

Matthew Schmitz

one hundred and fifty years ago a legal case involving three nuns was front-page news in britain and ireland. the plaintiff was susanna mary...

Neil Addison

forty years ago the communists got what they wanted, and lived to rue the day. when archbishop karol wojtyła of kraków was elected pope john...

Fr Raymond de Souza

on october 11 1962, st john xxiii formally opened the second vatican council. its avowed purpose was, he told the thousands assembled in st ...

Stephen Bullivant

he looked out over the small garden in front of his church, somewhere in the sprawling city of new delhi. one could hear the noise of the bu...

Andreas Thonhauser